News
Delay to Part L changes could put zero carbon plans at risk
Fears grow that implementation of Part L changes may be pushed back by six months to April 2014
Hill turnover dips amid shift to private housing
Pre-tax profit increases threefold in move from social to private housebuilding
Construction appointments: 14 June 2013
Mott MacDonald, Aecom, amd WSP are among the companies announcing new appointments
Data
Cost model: Primary schools
Now that we might be building primary schools again, what are the costs?
Projects
Tune in to BIM FM
What can BIM offer facilities managment and will it have a transformative impact on building operation?
Comment
Ready, steady … build
It’s not that the government isn’t doing anything, but it’s all taking far too long. Here are some ideas to speed up the pace
Hansom
Hansom: You're bard
It’s a week of drama again for construction, full of joyous celebrations, a race to get a document ready, a wandering fox and both a reality TV star and our esteemed chancellor working up a sweat
Inbox: Letters
Reassess planning to boost housebuilding
The country’s planning policies, which thwart development, hinder the supply of new homes
More needed for growth
Negative trends in the industry are likely to continue unless action is taken, such as investment in ‘shovel ready’ projects
Leader
Analysis
Where's the money?
Ahead of the spending review later this month, Building looks at the prospects for investment in construction
Legal
Easements: What's yours is theirs
How easements - rights that people who don’t own the land can exercise on it - can hold up a development
Limitation periods and adjudication
The idea of adjudication is that it has no bearing on any subsequent litigation or arbitration, but in this case a clever argument tried to get around that principle
Digital life
My digital life … Pernille Stafford
Resonate Interior Architecture’s managing director reveals her worst digital habit and an unusual online purchase
